For business owners who are constantly on the go, apps designed to work on mobile devices as well as desktop computers, are a gift from above. For cash strapped business owners, free apps enable one to play against much bigger competitors, those who would otherwise appear much more professional and competent. This collection of 10 free apps is well worth considering and then taking action to adopt any that you currently do not utilise.

A recent development from the 3D printing world reminds us that threats of trade secret misappropriation are more varied than cyber-espionage or the disgruntled employee taking confidential information to a competitor. With exciting new technologies come “exciting” new ways to steal trade secrets. Sometimes all it takes to steal a secret is being a good listener. That is the news out of UC Irvine, where a recent study revealed that a 3D printed object can be reverse engineered simply by listening to an audio recording of the sounds the printer makes.

The perception of St. Louis is a nice, conservative Midwest town, possibly waiting for a rebirth of the industrial revolution. But over the past two-plus years the region's business and entrepreneurial ecosystem has begun to ...

(From the article) So this was a list of the tools every entrepreneur must use. I am sure that by using these tools you will be able to boost your productivity and work faster. If you find any tool missing in this list, let me know in the comments below.

A blistering new Oxfam report debunks the theory that export crops are the best use of land in the developing world.

This idea dominates the marketing material of giant agrichemical firms like Monsanto. "In order to feed the world's growing population, farmers must produce more food in the next fifty years than they have in the past 10,000 years combined"...

The globe's farms are already producing enough food to feed 12 billion people—twice the current population and a third again more than the peak of 9 billion expected to be reached in 2050. Yet at least 925 million people lack access to enough to eat. What causes hunger isn't insufficient crop yields but rather people's economic relationships to food: whether they have access to land to grow it, or sufficient income to buy it.

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